Episode · The Book Review · 2022-04-15
Elizabeth Alexander on The Book Review: books mentioned
Elizabeth Alexander on 'The Trayvon Generation'
John Williams discussed Keats by Lucasta Miller and The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander. Jennifer Szalai discussed Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Keats
Discussed“bro lucasta Miller joins us to help us see a great poet more clearly and to talk about her new book Keats a brief life in nine poems and one Epitaph”
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The Trayvon Generation
Discussed“her new book is the Trayvon generation in the book review Mitchell s Jackson calls it a profound and lyrical meditation on Race class Justice and their intersections with art”
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Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
Discussed“Jen you also took a dive into the past in a personal way going a little further back in time to the philosopher wienstein and his his private journals yes so I reviewed this new translation and actually it's it's the first time that it's been translated into English in a volume these are Vicken Stein's private journals from 1914”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Light of the World
“she is a Pulitzer Prize finalist poet the author of The memoir the light of the world and I'm willing to bet that you remember her reading her poem praise song for the day”
Passing Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“and a lot of that material actually got turned into what would of course become his tractatus logico philosophicus which was published after World War I”
Passing Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
“and I reviewed private notebooks 1914 to 196 by ludvig Vicken Stein which was edited and translated by margerie peroff”